Lydia Davis Quotes
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
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Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based?
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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
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I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
